DISSENT AND HETERODOXY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: REFORMERS, BABIS AND BAHA'IS
Necati ALKAN
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Transliteration
Foreword
Introduction
1. Reforms in the Late
Westernising reforms and the role of the ulema at the turn of the 19th century
Sultan Abdülmecid
The Tanzimat Period
2. Early Babis in the
The Rule of Necib Pasha in
The Rise of the Babi Movement
Combined Sunni-Shi‘i Opposition: The Trial of Mulla ‘Ali Bastami
The Bab’s Epistle to Sultan Abdülmecid
Sultan Abdülmecid and Tahira
3. The Babis,
The Exile of Baha’u’llah in
Forced Residence of Baha’u’llah in
Baha’u’llah in
Final Exile in ‘Akka: Baha’u’llah’s Letters to Âli Pasha and Fuad Pasha
4. The Baha’is and the ‘Fathers’ of Ottoman Constitutionalism
Young Ottomans and the Baha’is
Midhat Pasha and ‘Abdu’l-Baha
5. Iranian Reformers, Young Turks and the ‘Babis’ in 19th
Century
Sayyid Jamalu’d-Din ‘al-Afghani’
Al-Afghani, the Babis and the Baha’is
The ‘Babi Leader’ al-Afghani and the Young Turks
Mirza Malkum Khan, the Babis and the Baha’is
The Reformist Baha’i Qajar Prince Shaykhu’r-Ra’is
6. ‘Abdu’l-Baha and the Ottomans, 1890s – 1910s
Ottoman Intellectuals on ‘Abdu’l-Baha
‘Abdu’l-Baha, Abdülhamid II and the Young Turks
‘Abdu’l-Baha and the Young Turks after 1908
7. From Empire to Republic: State and Religion in the Era of
Kemalist reform
The Young Turks and Kemalist Westernism: the Role of Abdullah Cevdet
Abdullah Cevdet, Islam and the Baha’i Religion
Atatürk’s Secularist Reforms and the Baha’i Response
Baha’is under the Scrutiny of the
Atatürk and the Baha’i Religion
Conclusions
Appendices
Bibliography
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